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Why You Need to be Listening to Welcome to Nightvale

Hey, guys! I’m writing over at Outright Geekery again today, and I’m talking about Welcome to Nightvale. I hope you’ll join me over there!

If you’re like me, you heard about Welcome to Night Vale long before you actually listened to the podcast. I would see posts all over Tumblr that related to Night Vale, but I had no idea what Night Vale actually was. Friends who usually knew about stuff before me had never even heard of it, and when I turned to the internet, I couldn’t find a description that I could really wrap my mind around. As I listener now myself, and I’m sure other Night Vale fans will be able to echo this, I realize one really can’t offer a good explanation of what Welcome to Night Vale actually is. So, let me just point out a few obvious points:

1. Welcome to Night Vale is a twice-monthly podcast.

2. The podcast is the community radio program for the fictitious town of Night Vale.

3. Welcome to Night Vale is hosted by a man called Cecil Palmer. The actor who provides the voice to Cecil Palmer is called Cecil Baldwin.

4. Cecil Palmer is dating a scientist with perfect hair called Carlos (I am pretty sure Cecil Baldwin’s boyfriend is not called Carlos). Carlos often performs scientific investigations on the various anomalies found in Night Vale.